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Doctor Marius Amado-Alves wrote on 2nd November 2021: |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"As I understand it, to work with Unicode text inside the program it is | |better to use the Wide_Wide (UTF-32) variants of everything. | | | |Now, Unicode files usually are in UTF-8. | | | |One solution is to read the entire file in one gulp to a String, then | |convert to Wide_Wide. This solution is not memory efficient, and it may not | |be possible in some tasks e.g. real time processing of lines of text. | | | |If the files has lines, I guess we can also work line by line (Text_IO). But| |the text may not have lines. Can be a long XML object, for example. | | | |So it should be possible to read a single UTF-8 character, right? Which | |might be 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes long, so it must be read into a String, right? | |Or directly to Wide_Wide. Are there such functions? | | | |Thanks a lot." | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

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